Newbie Saying Hi

(Andy) #1

Hey guys & gals,

I just thought i should post up to say hi as ive been lurking in the background for about a week now reading the posts and loving the forum.
Im UK based and began my Keto journey on 16th Sept 2018, so it will be two weeks on Sunday. Since beginning ive read so much about Ketosis and the pro’s of it. Its completely changed my outlook on diet and what people are being told to eat by our governments and the supposed intelligent people in the health profession.
I cant help but wonder if its all linked as its convenient to keep people eating Carbs as it deteriorates their health and inevitability will lead to them being dependant on pills ie keeping the mega pharmaceutical companies churning out huge profits.

Maybe im over thinking it all but i cant help wondering!!

Anyways (thats a bit heavy for a Newbie post lol). Since i began ive dropped about 10lbs.
Im basically being as strict as i can with my foods and living to 16:8 but often im finding my fasts are running into 18-22hrs then having a small window of eating as im just not as hungry as i always was when eating carbs.

Hope to continue to enjoy these forums and chat to you all.

Regards

Andy

#2

It’s easy for me to believe this too.

Nina Teicholz’s book The Big Fat Surprise doesn’t paint it as quit the conspiracy I would like to believe, but I do believe that after the dietary guidelines switched to emphasis more carbs, and more emphasis was placed on drugs, then it became easier to justify the status quo, when these huge corporations started realizing their profits.

Possibly became more conspiratorial after that, but I don’t know if it was a big conspiracy that got us here in the first place.

Honestly, I don’t know. I’m just glad I’ve discovered the ketogenic diet, for myself. :wink:

Great to have you on-board, Andy. Look forward to hearing more from you! :+1:

(John) #3

I don’t think it is anything quite so drastic as that. It is much more likely that big-money interests in agriculture (sugar, corn, wheat growers) and food production (big companies that put the stuff in the boxes on your shelves) fund studies that show that whatever it is that they sell isn’t really bad for you, and use their ability to control politicians through campaign contributions and threats of lost jobs to avoid any meaningful public health awareness campaigns.

And when they do see the winds of dietary change blowing one way, they rush to jump on the bandwagon and plaster claims all over their products trying to make money off of whatever they think the current trends are, while at the same time trying to water down whatever the requirements are for those labels to make sure they can meet the claims.

I don’t think anyone is truly trying to keep us sick, they are just trying to make money however they can get away with it.

(Carpe salata!) #4

Yeah. I think it’s an emergent phenomena of corporations acting in their best interests as they’re supposed to do under the law.

More correctly, act in their shareholder’s best interests.

If the laws are controlled by people funded by the corporations who can ignore the voter’s best interests, then yes. The system is broken and should be fixed somehow.

(Raj Seth) #5

But, aren’t those shareholders also obese diabetic and hyperinsulinemic?
:grin: